Do winter chills have you huddled under your fuzzy blanket, wishing for warmer days and summer skies? Take a break from the cold and come chat about the Heat Wave!
Trace Edward Zaber of Amber Quill will be in the Romance Divas Chat Room, answering our questions about publishing, Amber Quill, and the Heat Wave contest. Come get the inside scoop on what it takes to win this prestigious writing competition.
Last year the Divas had a great presence on the winners list. Come chat with Trace and find out exactly what he’s looking for in 2007 as Amber Quill runs their 15 day open submission contest.
Learn more about the Heat Wave here. Then stop by the chat Friday night for the final word.
See you there!
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Trace Edward Zaber
Trace is a Chicago-area writer, specializing in Civil War fiction. In 2000, Trace’s debut novel, Sins of the Father, won Word Weaving’s first-ever Award For Literary Excellence and it was nominated for an EPPIE Award in the Best Historical Fiction category. Also available soon will be Trace’s seven-part Civil War series The Culpeper Chronicles, including the first book in the series, One Bitter And Deadly Harvest, and the second book, Two Nations Under God. Moreover, Trace’s stories “Blood Brothers” and “The Collections of Bethlehem” have garnered several awards and appeared in a Historical Anthology Twilight Antiquity. Another of his stories, “Esprit De Corps,” appeared as part of the award-winning Tales of the Spirit of Hope, Love, and Redemption charitable anthology.
Trace is also the Managing Editor and part of the writing team—collaboratively known as T. C. Jilké—for Amber Circle, the 1st E-Soap for the CyberAge!
Additionally, Trace moderates several writers’ critique groups, was a featured author at Barnes & Noble’s Writers’ Harvest 1997, and was the owner/editor of the award-winning Of Ages Past Magazine (now defunct).
On the side—and much to the surprise of those who know him only by his prose—Trace is a rock ’n’ roller, an accomplished vocalist and keyboard player. During his lengthy musical career as a recording artist and songwriter, and as a member of more than two dozen bands, he toured as a support act for world-renowned groups such as Judas Priest, Heart, and Jefferson Starship, and even played the challenging lead role in Jesus Christ Superstar. Aside from his own studio work, Trace’s voice can also be heard on various albums, where he performed as a guest background vocalist, as well as on television ads, including Pizza Hut, when he worked as a jingle singer for several advertising agencies. Most recently, in 2002, Trace signed his fifth recording contract, this time as the lead vocalist with DSG (The Dave Shankle Group—Dave Shankle is the former award-winning guitarist and Guinness Book Of World Records guitarist with heavy-metal legends, Manowar). The first DSG album, Ashes To Ashes, is now available from Magic Circle Music/Nuclear Blast Records. The band’s website is online at http://davidshankle.com, where you can read the official biography, reviews of the album, even download snippets of the various tracks and also the band’s two full-length music videos, “Ashes To Ashes” and “Calling All Heroes.” The CD is available for purchase there as well. (Update: Due to his work with Amber Quill Press and as a cover artist, Trace has recently made the difficult decision to leave the band and put his side contract as a solo recording artist on hold.)
And if that wasn’t enough, Trace is also the owner of By Thunder, which includes several authoring services—Thundergraph: Web Design, Graphics, & Webmastering; ThunderProse: Professional Editing Services; and ThunderArt, the division of By Thunder that creates award-winning cover art for both e-books and paperbacks. Currently, Trace is also the Editorial Director and Creative Director for Amber Quill Press. His cover art won the Spectrum Award for “Best Overall Cover Art” 2001, and the 2004 Quasar Award for “Best In Category—Suspense/Thriller” and twice in 2005 for both “Best In Category—Horror” and “Best In Category—Mainstream.” He consistently places in the Top 10 in various author/reader polls for both “Best Cover Artist” and for specific book covers.
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